Improvement in earth-closers



matted tatra @anni @imita LEWIS Gr. CLOCK, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent No. 104,270, dated Tame 14, 1870.

IMPRovEMnNT INBARTH-cnosrrrs. y.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of thesame vwith my invention applied thereto, such invention consisting in apeculiarmechanism for discharging into the hud, o1` excrementreceptacle, earth from the hopper.

In the drawing- A denotes the seat;

B,'the lid or cover thereof', the said cover being hinged to astationary cleat, a.

In rear of and above the seat is the hopper or earthreservoir C, which,at bottom, is open, so as to discharge upon a platform, D, arrangedbelow the hopper and seat, and in rea-r and aside of such seat.

0n the said platform is a discharger, E, composed of a sexies of arms, bb, extending radially and at equal distances apart from ahorizontalratchet, c, ha-ving teeth arranged on its upper side.`

Figure 3 is a top view, and

Figure 4, a side View of such discharger, the teeth of its ratchet beingshown at d.

There is arranged on the seat, and so as to play through' au opening, e,madein the cleat, a slider, f, which has pivoted to it a `pawl, g, tooperate against the teeth of the ratchet. 4

Furthermore, there is a short arm or tooth, It, pro'- jected from-therear edge of the seat and into an open-'- ing, fi, made in the slider f.i v

Figure 5 is a top view ofthe slider and its pawl. Figure 6 being a sideview of them.

Ou raising the coverfrom oft' the seat, the toothv will move the slidertoward the hole of' the seat, and thereby draw the pawl back on theratchet; but, while the cover is being depressed, the tooth will :movethe slider and advance the pawl against the ratchet, so'as to turn itthrough a part of a circle, whereby the'discharger will be caused toforce oft'v the platform and A into the hod or excl-ement-` receptacleunder the seat, a quantity of earth.

The diseharger, by its peculiar construction, and its arrangement withthe hopper and platforl,`will prevent unnecessary waste or escape ofearth from the hopper.

The arms of the dischar'ger should be Aarranged at such distances apartthat neither of them shall be directly underneath the seat-hole when thecover is raised to its highest position, or when a person may be sittingon the seat.

- I claim as my invention- The discharger E and its operative mechanism,viz., the tooth h, the slider j, the pawl g, and ratchet c, combinedwith the hopper C, the platform D, the seat A, and its cover B, thewhole being substantially as and to operate as specied.`

LEWIS G.CLOCK. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. It. Snow.

